On Thanksgiving, Day to Celebrate Coming Together, Trump Vows to Build Wall

Many people might find it jarring on Thursday morning by how President Donald Trump offered the nation a Happy Thanksgiving in the form of a tweet in which he vowed to "build the WALL" designed to keep future refugees and immigrants out of the country. (Cover detail: New Yorker/Christoph Niemann)

However, one of the most widely recognized interpretations of the U.S. holiday, is based on the narrative of how early European settlers—many of them fleeing their home countries following religious persecution or otherwise looking for a new and better life—were nurtured from the struggles of living in a harsh new land by the Indigenous people already living on the continent when they arrived.

It is that notion of the holiday, perhaps, why many people might find it jarring on Thursday morning by how President Donald Trump offered the nation a Happy Thanksgiving in the form of a tweet in which he vowed to "build the WALL" designed to keep future refugees and immigrants out of the country.

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Whew. That was way too close for comfort. And yeah, the country's in a sorry state to have come to this. But not only does Doug Jones become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years; his win is a blunt rejection of all the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, race-baiting, sexual-assaulting, serial lying crap of losers Moore and Trump and Bannon and their ugly ilk. Forward to mid-terms. And once and for all, to Moore in all his evil: "Fuck you and the horse you (badly) rode in on."